“I saw in a book a picture that kind of looked like a cell phone tower with Pikes ... s a story about Nikola Tesla burning down the local power plant in Colorado Springs, and that really fascina ...

Curtis, on being advised of Tesla's work, offered to find land and provide power for the research from the El Paso Power Company of Colorado Springs ... and a wooden tower that soared up eighty ...

When Tesla returned from Colorado Springs to New York ... Morgan offered Tesla $150,000 to build a transmission tower and power plant. A more realistic sum would have been $1,000,000, but Tesla ...